Winston-Salem, NC—88.5 WFDD’s producer and host Kathryn Mobley has won four awards for features she produced in 2006. She received a First Place award from Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) in the category of Best Use of Sound for her story entitled Beep Ball, featuring a baseball game played by blind athletes. Participants in the PRNDI contest compete in divisions against similarly-sized public radio stations from around the country. It is a national award. Mobley’s Beep Ball also won First Place for Feature Reporting in the Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Awards, a competition open to stations in eleven states in the Southeast.

Mobley also won two First Place awards from the North Carolina Associated Press, one for Feature Reporting and another for Best Use of Sound.

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Kathryn Mobley

In addition to Mobley’s awards, WFDD former reporter and Morning Edition host Thibault Worth won Rookie of the Year from the North Carolina Associated Press.

General manager Jay Banks noted that “this is the fourth year 88.5 WFDD has placed high in regional and national contests.” He continued to say that he is “proud of the entire staff and pleased that the Piedmont Triad has access to nationally-recognized reporters and resulting news stories.”

88.5 WFDD, the NPR® news and Triad Arts station broadcasting from Wake Forest University, is the only public radio station of its kind located in the Piedmont Triad. It broadcasts news, information, and public affairs programming covering the arts, people, and institutions in the area from both its Winston-Salem and Greensboro studios. The state’s charter NPR® member, 88.5 WFDD is the longest continuously broadcasting public radio station in North Carolina. It is a member of the North Carolina Public Radio Association.